Jo Briskey (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

On Tuesday night, the Treasurer handed down a budget aimed squarely at tackling intergenerational inequality. We have listened to the young people, and to people right across my electorate, and heard how they felt the system was rigged against them and the status quo was just not working.

Unlike those opposite, who'd rather punch down on migrant communities and lay the blame at their feet, this government is getting on with the job of getting people into their own home. Already, our Labor government has built more than a thousand homes in my electorate alone, which is three times the number that the coalition built across the entire country in the decade that they were in power. So I think it's a bit rich for those opposite to purposely mislead and play cheap politics around our ambitious housing agenda.

Not only are we changing the tax system to level the playing field, to get more people into their own home; we're investing in the infrastructure needed to help deliver more than 65,000 new homes. So I ask: how are Australians meant to take those opposite seriously on housing supply, when they couldn't even build more than 400 homes in a decade?

The message to my community is clear: this government is committed to tackling our housing crisis. We are following the path of reform, rather than the path of least resistance.

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